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Awesome photo, but "flying" is not just for air. Penguins fly underwater.

Marvelous, but what does this have to do with a secure proxy server.

Nice photo. Best example of a natural canard configuration I've ever seen.

If Architeuthis masters flight then we are all doomed.

Are you sure that is not a hoax? In the only picture showing the flying squid foreground and background are very unrelated, and you don't see were the squid left the water.

Furthermore I doubt the propulsion apparatus of squid can provide the necessary speed to leave water and get the squid gliding (especially with that ratio of mass to lifting sufaces).

Does anybody have another source for this?

@vader

Not that wikipedia's definitive...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Look a whole shoal:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/batabidd/3388851047/

Somehow I think this particular photo is a fake.

@Aguirre: I agree, looks shopped.

However, they can and do glide in the air for a distance.

I once got hit in the chest by a flying fish while in a boat.

> I once got hit in the chest by a flying fish while in a boat.

What does that prove about squids?

> Not that wikipedia's definitive...

No, it ain't. I still believe, it's a hoax. Perhaps rather long term and elaborate, but none the less. E.g. the Humboldt squid ist linked a "Jumbo flying squid". At the Humbold squid page (humbold suid is, AFAIR a rather common squid) there's of course no mention of flying or gliding. One would expect, wouldn't one?
Somehow this all smells fishy. And no explanation why a squid should be able to glide with such a bad ratio of lifting surface to mass, much worse than that of a flying fish.

No, I don't believe it-

> Their articles are written by biologists, and they're not given to hoaxes.

And they authenticate their contributors how?

Never mind. Perhaps I'm wrong. But I can't find a even genuinely looking picture of a flying squid.

dear vader, my wife and I observed a group of flying squid about 200 miles south of Rio last November. I have 9 not very good pictures of a group of 15 individuals some jetting water and others merely gliding back into the ocean. They are not a hoax.

why in the world are ya'll worried about this anyway?

@ Bob Hulse,

"why in the world are ya'll worried about this anyway?"

Have you ever seen a whale or dolphin jump out of the water?

Have you seen what sort of a mess a whale hitting a boat can do?

Some squid could give a dolphin a run for it's money on size, and unlike the dolphin squid can be real real nasty when out of water.

There is something (prime-evil ;) about giant squid that seamen down the years have put into their stories. And squid have taken on the same significance to ancient chart makers as "dragons" have to ancient map makers (ie "hear be dragons" when an area is unknown and explorers have not come back).

And maruding Squid have always been good for a B-Movie or three along with the standard fare with the likes of "The Giant Killer Tomatoes" (hey you just need a "Giant Garlic" and you've the making of a lot of sauce for "seafood pasta" ;)